Posted: 02nd Jan, 2006 By: MarkJ
One of Europes largest network exchanges, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, has reported that e-mail and website browsing remained top of online services for 2005 by hogging a combined 48% of all data traffic.
The runners up were..:
19% - Usenet (newsgroups).
14% - Streaming multimedia (online videos and audio)
13% - Peer-to-peer (misc. files and music).
4% - Online gaming (multiplayer).
3% -
VoIP (Voice-over-IP).
No doubt the amount of junk e-mail is a major contributing factor for the services dominance. However, perhaps the biggest surprise from above is online gaming, which would have barely registered in previous years.